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Colbert jokes about Mitt's dog

“Look at his energy policy. What is his energy policy? … You can’t drive a car with a windmill on it,” Romney said.

“That’s right!” Colbert said, incredulously shaking his head. “You can’t drive a car with a windmill on it! Because if you put a windmill on top of your car, then where does the dog go? Stupid.”

The dog that Colbert was referring to is Seamus the Irish setter. According to a story first reported by the Boston Globe in 2007, Seamus was placed in a dog carrier that was strapped to the Romney family’s station wagon as they began a 12-hour drive from Boston to Ontario.

The incident has drawn the ire of dog lovers across the country while Romney’s critics have seized on the bizarre story to question the candidate’s character.

According to the the Globe, one of Romney’s sons, Tagg, noticed that “a brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter that had been riding on the roof, in the wind, for hours.” “As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway,” according to the report.

Colbert wasn’t the only one ribbing Romney about the dog. Rick Santorum’s chief strategist John Brabender on Wednesday morning hit Romney’s sense of judgment by bringing up the now-infamous story.

“You’re talking about the guy whose super PAC has already spent 40 million brutally attacking the other candidates, and quite frankly, I’m not sure that I’m going to listen to the value judgment of a guy who strapped his own dog on the top of the roof of his car when hurling down the highway,” Brabender said on CNN, responding to a question about Romney’s jab Tuesday that Santorum’s campaign had reached a “desperate end.”

Colbert wants to ensure media penetration of this lapse of Romney's, so he's repeating the joke in endless manifestations. Hey, Colbert's better than a Democrat operative. It's really tiresome at this point and incredibly old news to spoof. Poor, poor Colbert can't find anything funny or stupid about Democrats. How about the Schieffer interview in the White House a few weeks ago? He was the ONLY media guy allowed in. He practically bowed, going on and on deferentially at the honor of being there. Media that kisses up to a greater degree than all the other media kissing up was allowed in. Slightly massive presidential ego there. Nothing to spoof, nope, just nothing. Funny, Colbert doesn't think anyone notices. He's got a small loyal following. They'd laugh if he sat on top of his car eating milk bones for an hour. Woof.

I may not have a windmill on top of my car, but I have one "in my garage." Someone help explain this to Mitt: 1) I own an Nissan Leaf electric car. 2) I signed up with my local electrical utility to supply my household with 100% renewable energy, made from things like, um, windmills, and um, what shall we call it, "barnyard manure?" 3) I have a Blink charge station installed in my garage to transfer this green electricity to my electric car. 4) I spend literally 10X less on this 100% emissions-free electricity used to power my electric car than the average American spends on gas to power their gas-powered car.

But, Mitt Romney doesn't want to hear about, and he wants to make jokes about it, because he's shilling for the Koch Brothers and the fossil fuel industry -- keep it up Mitt -- with the amount of barnyard manure you are spreading I can keep driving my electric car FOREVER!